Wednesday, September 07, 2011

"Feminism can be thought of as like a corporation."

"Feminism can be thought of as like a corporation. It's interested in its constituents. Well-meaning feminists are often trained only to see a certain way, only to support their constituents. That is partly what underlies the spurious research on battered-woman syndrome. Anyone who questions whether battered women are only simple victims is put in the pillory and crucified."

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I'm going to disagree with you, Helen. I'm a feminist, and I'm not so quick to buy into the woman-as-victims-100%-of-the-time theory.

Feminists are generally well-meaning but there is a group out there that isn't, that will support what is good for them not matter what. And that group is suburban married/divorced women. These ladies can only see beyond the end of their own nose, any detractors are given the dysfunctional swarm treatment immediately. Scary.

feminism is an indocrtination, plain and simple...and as such becomes an ideology.

as with any ideology, it's adherents become blinkered and obtuse, and unreasonable in debate.

my wife is a social worker with a masters in psychology and is surrounded by masters in social work, which is basically a cult of feminists who believe that family is women and their children, who need to be protected from abusive men...and these people are at the helm of an agency that is supposed to be helping families on the street.

in many counties in ontario the MSW is the only accreditation that the employer will accept into children's aid and no other equally qualified applicants are considered...and so the agency actively marginalised the men in distressed family situations, removing them form homes, criminalising them and removing benefits if they are present.

my wife was hired initially with the understanding that she would get her MSW, but as she said, she couldn't deal with the feminist position throughout the course work as marginalising men.

my wife worked in an agency that ran support groups for men who had ben charged with violence toward women and the agency she worked for eventually made it impossible to continue the work, as they felt that it would stigmatise their agency by working with criminals.

oh yeah, and feminism leads directly to lesbianism. more than three quarters of the MSW staff of the agency where my wife works is lesbian qnd the director of the agency is a gay man.

1) The growing number of men condemning misandry.2) The harder tone that each man is taking.3) More women getting worried and starting to say 'feminism is not like that' or 'I am not like other feminists'.

Whether there are well-meaning feminists depends on your definition of feminism. I think it was Warren Farrell that said that the real definition of feminism was "the belief that women should have options and men should have obligations". This definition is certainly more predictive of the real world, in a variety of domains. It also means that that this bullshit about men and women being treated equally is just that, bullshit, and that there are no "well meaning feminists".

One can always go Gault on women. Many of us have. As long as I have a heel to turn on, I shall go Gault on everything necessary. I want to see how many women make it as it becomes every man for himself.

It is obvious that without the law and the courts and warped public opinion (manipulated, of course) that eventually it may well become every woman for herself.

It's that damned vagina, I'm telling you. If you can get over that hurdle, the rest is easy.

Dr Alistair, we are all free to go. That means we don't have to placate all the narcissists, the BPDs, the passive aggressive manipulators, the OCDs, the ADHDs and all the other nutjobs of the opposite sex in the form of romantic partners. The only people left is a very unhappy Maggie Gallagher and her ilk.